NFL" redirects here. For other uses, see NFL (disambiguation). For other
leagues of the same name, see National Football League (disambiguation).
National Football League Current season or competition:
2011 NFL season
National Football League 2008.svg
Sport American Football
Founded August 20, 1920, in Canton, Ohio
Commissioner Roger Goodell
Inaugural season 1920
No. of teams 32
Country(ies) United States
Most recent champion(s) Green Bay Packers (13th title)
Most titles Green Bay Packers (13 titles)
TV partner(s) CBS
Fox
NBC
ESPN
NFL Network
Official website NFL
The National Football League (NFL) is the highest level of professional
American football in the United States. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as
the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its
name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists of
thirty-two teams from the United States. The league is divided evenly into two
conferences — the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football
Conference (NFC), and each conference has four divisions that have four teams
each, for a total of 16 teams in each conference. The NFL is an unincorporated
501(c)(6) association,[1][2][3] a federal nonprofit designation,[4] comprising
its 32 teams.[5][6]
The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team plays
sixteen games and has one bye week. The season currently starts on the Thursday
night in the first full week of September (the Thursday after Labor Day) and
runs weekly to late December or early January. At the end of each regular
season, six teams from each conference (at least one from each division) play in
the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that culminates
with the championship game, known as the Super Bowl. This game is held at a
pre-selected site which is usually a city that hosts an NFL team.
The NFL is the most attended domestic sports league in the world by average
attendance per game, with 66,960 fans per game in 2010–11.[7] Although not as
frequently as the other major professional sports leagues in the United States,
the NFL still is not immune to labor disputes, such as the player's strikes of
1982 and 1987, and more recently a lockout in 2011, though the latest did not
result in the cancellation of any regular-season games.
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